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Rudy, <br />Airline passengers pay nowhere near enough for the use of the airports. In the area I live, there is a hotel/motel tax coupled with a tax on entertainment (whatever that entails) that have helped fund the improvements at the airport in the area. This tax applies to everyone, not just airline passengers. The roads are funded largely by a taxes levied on the private auto, that unfortunately, do the the least damage to the highways. The trucking companies, which cause most of the wear on the road surface, pay a much smaller percentage of the cost of maintaining the highway system. By the way, if you think that the airline passengers support the ATC system and airports, you are mistaken. Most of the airlines could not remain in business if it wasnt for federal subsidies, the huge bailout of the airlines after 9/11 comes immeadiatly to mind, and this after several warnings of inadequate security at our airports. It took the government to bail them out again by Federalizing the security forces at the airports. How about I just push post reply once on this one. I do, however, appreaciate your opinion .
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